Category: Faculty News

  • Congratulations to Kobena Mercer

    Congratulations to Kobena Mercer

    Yale University Press Congratulates its 2024 CAA Prizewinners Kobena Mercer, winner of the 2024 Frank Jeett Mather Award for Art Criticism and the author of Alain Locke and the Visual Arts.   “Mercer’s sumptuously illustrated study . . . succeeds in positioning Locke as an important philosophical voice in the ‘not yet finalized story of…

  • Alex Kitnick speaks at the Institute for Contemporary Art

    MCLUHAN LECTURES: CHIOKE I’ANSON AND ALEX KITNICK ON MARSHALL MCLUHAN Friday, Apr 14, 6:00 PM–8:00 PM If the title of artist Rafael Domenech’s experimental publishing pavilion on the ICA’s third floor, The Medium is the Massage, seems familiar, that’s because it’s borrowed from a highly influential 1967 book by trailblazing media theorist Marshall McLuhan. For anyone…

  • Artforum features two Art History and Visual Culture Faculty

    Susan Aberth on “Supernatural in America” and Alex Kitnick on “Lifes” for more https://www.artforum.com/print

  • Katherine Boivin to speak at University of Toronto Conference

    Netherlandish Carved Altarpieces International Conference May 12-14, 2022 Online.

  • Review of Katherine Boivin’s Riemenschneider in Rothenburg

    The Art History and Visual Culture Program celebrate’s Katherine Bovin’s book: 22.01.25 Boivin, Riemenschneider in Rothenburg Boivin, Katherine M. Riemenschneider in Rothenburg: Sacred Space and Civic Identity in the Late Medieval City. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021. Pp. 248. $99.95 (hardback). ISBN: 978-0-271-08778-8 (hardback). https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/33897/37371

  • Best Art Books of 2021

    The art critics of The New York Times have selected their favorites from this year’s crop of art books.  Among Roberta Smith’s favorites is “Simple Pleasures: The Art of Doris Lee,” by Melissa Wolfe, and published by D. Giles Ltd and Westmoreland Museum of American Art.   ‘Simple Pleasures: The Art of Doris Lee’ Doris Lee…

  • Congratulations Alex Kitnick on your new book!

    Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) is best known as a media theorist—many consider him the founder of media studies—but he was also an important theorist of art. Though a near-household name for decades due to magazine interviews and TV specials, McLuhan remains an underappreciated yet fascinating figure in art history. His connections with the art of his…

  • Congratulations to Katherine Boivin on the publication of her book!

    Riemenschneider in Rothenburg Sacred Space and Civic Identity in the Late Medieval City Katherine M. Boivin, Assistant Professor at Bard College Penn State University Press, 2021 “Riemenschneider in Rothenburg” should be of great interest to art historians and others. It sheds light on a major figure of the Northern ‘Renaissance’ and also on issues of…

  • Congratulations to Olga Touloumi!

    Olga Touloumi, Assistant Professor of Architectural History, has been awarded the National Endowment of the Humanities Summer Stipends Award to support her scholarly humanities book project, specifically, “The Global Interior: Modern Architecture and the Ordering of the World.”  –   Professor Touloumi joins other NEH Summer Stipends Awardees in pursuing advanced, new research recognized to be of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. In the last five competitions, the NEH…

  • Reiko Tomii in conversation with Alex Kitnick